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> [How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/how-difficult-it-was-for-a-woman-once-she-was-named-by-doctors-to/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

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## More by Kate Zambreno

> [The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/the-memoir-by-women-read-by-female-readers-is-considered-a-market/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [“Ruth loved color so much she rarely wore any. Except on her face.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/ruth-loved-color-so-much-she-rarely-wore-any-except-on-her-face/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/it-is-only-through-having-a-stable-loving-partnership-that-i-began-to/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I think the key to writing the truth of our existences, so much of this is being incubated online, is examining the conflicts and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-think-the-key-to-writing-the-truth-of-our-existences-so-much-of/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I do teach fiction and non-fiction, and usually I'm interested in works that confuse genre, but I'm very new to teaching creative writing, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-do-teach-fiction-and-non-fiction-and-usually-i-m-interested-in/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/the-biographies-of-the-great-men-see-their-excesses-as-signs-of-their/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I have almost never been compared to male writers in any review. All women.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-have-almost-never-been-compared-to-male-writers-in-any-review-all/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [“I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-am-beginning-to-realize-that-taking-the-self-out-of-our-essays-is-a/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-think-genius-can-have-a-lot-to-do-with-nerve-and-permission/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-m-just-too-lazy-i-wish-i-could-be-someone-that-has-wild-affairs-all/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-always-remember-my-childhood-as-traumatic-for-various-reasons-i/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/sometimes-she-narrates-her-actions-inside-her-head-in-third-person/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [I think that writing and publishing are different. I think I will always write; I might not always publish. The idea of not publishing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-think-that-writing-and-publishing-are-different-i-think-i-will/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/my-rage-and-sense-of-alienation-as-to-how-women-have-been-written/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

> [“I once told a very serious writer/poet I knew about how obsessed I was with various women’s lives. I think I was talking about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-zambreno/i-once-told-a-very-serious-writer-poet-i-knew-about-how-obsessed-i/)

[Kate Zambreno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-zambreno/)

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